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Saturday, August 13, 2016

Vacancy at KNCV : Temporary Technical Officer - PMDT

KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation is an international non-profit
organization dedicated to the fight against tuberculosis (TB), still the
second most deadly infectious disease in the world. KNCV Tuberculosis
Foundation has a strong reputation in national and international TB
control. KNCV is an international center of expertise for TB control
that promotes effective, efficient, innovative and sustainable
tuberculosis control strategies in a national and international context.
We are an organization of passionate TB professionals, including
doctors, researchers, training experts, nurses and epidemiologists. We
aim to stop the spread of the worldwide epidemic of TB and to prevent
the further spread of drug-resistant TB. As a non-profit international
organization, KNCV is active in over 40 countries in Europe, Africa,
Latin America and Asia. The central office is located in The Hague, The
Netherlands. KNCV Indonesia helps to combat tuberculosis in Indonesia
in close cooperation with the Ministry of Health.

Challenge TB

KNCV
is the lead partner in Challenge TB (CTB), the new USAID-funded 5-year
global program to decrease TB mortality and morbidity in high burdened
countries. We lead an international consortium with eight partner
organizations: American Thoracic Society (ATS), Family Health
International (FHI 360), Interactive Research & Development (IRD),
Japanese Anti Tuberculosis Foundation (JATA), Management Sciences for
Health (MSH), Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), The
International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union),
and the World Health Organization. The overarching strategic objectives
of Challenge TB are to improve access to quality patient centred care
for TB, TB/HIV, and MDR-TB services; to prevent transmission and disease
progression; and to strengthen TB platforms.

The
Technical Officer – PMDT (Programmatic Management of Drug-Resistance
Tuberculosis) will provide technical assistance to the National TB
Program to ensure the implementation of PMDT is in line with the
national standards and achieves the targets. S/he will provide up to
date technical guidance and contributes to continuous learning to within
KNCV and coalition partners, ensures evaluation and documentation of
interventions to collect and share lessons learnt, as well as
maintaining KNCV standards of work throughout the organization, in
her/his field of work.

Key Responsibilities include:

Technical Assistance

Provide
technical assistance to NTP on policy development, planning and
development of more supportive regulation for DR TB case finding, care
and prevention, including providing technical assistance to NTP for
initiating new approach in case finding and quality treatment and care.

Provide technical assistance to NTP to ensure access to diagnosis and treatment of MDR-TB expanded.